Old Man Wang slapped Wang Lei on the head and said: "You have only had a few full meals, but you don't know how high the sky is. The officers and soldiers of the imperial court are powerful. With these 3,000 people, we may not be able to defeat 30,000. You actually plan to lead
Three thousand people and officers and soldiers fight!"
Old Man Wang is still very afraid of the Han army. At the beginning, they were defeated by less than 10 Han soldiers with one million people. In his opinion, they may not be able to win with one enemy and ten, not to mention that their current numbers are not as good as the Han army.
Wang Lei said unconvinced: "We also have three thousand people! As long as the equipment is not inferior to that of the officers and soldiers, we may not be unable to defeat them."
Xu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "Of the three thousand people, only the 500 we brought from Changshan can barely be considered elites. The others can't even walk a few steps without gasping for breath, and they can't go to the battlefield at all!"
Although Xu Wei now has 3,000 men, there are only more than 2,000 men excluding women and children. Firstly, there is no training and they are just a mob. Secondly, each of them is as skinny as a skeleton. What kind of combat power can such men have, even the so-called
The 500 elites were only the tallest among the dwarfs. They had been fed for several months and had undergone simple formation training. They barely reached the level of militia. Letting them fight the Han army was like a sheep in a tiger's mouth! Xu Wei was not so cruel.
Thousands of people died tragically like this!
He thought for a while and said: "We continue to retreat into the mountains. They came in a hurry and they must not have brought much military rations. They will not be able to hold on for a few days! As long as we don't fight them, they will have no choice but to collapse without a fight!"
It's just guerrilla warfare. Xu Wei has seen too much, and now he is learning and applying it. However, Xu Wei also told the surrounding refugees about the news that the imperial court led officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them, telling them to hide well and not to be caught by the officers and soldiers!
On the evening of the next day after the news came, the officers and soldiers came to the foot of Hukou Mountain and set up camp.
After Xu Wei found out, he immediately ordered everyone to retreat into the mountains. The only thing that made Xu Wei feel embarrassed here was that his van could not continue to follow, because even the carriages could pass the mountain road behind. Xu Wei could only move
The van was hidden in a cave, and the carriage was dismantled by Xu Wei to form wheelbarrows, transporting materials and retreating into the mountains.
On the morning of the third day, the prefect of Wei County inquired about the camp where Xu Wei was stationed, and led the Han army to rush over.
But when he passed by, he only saw an empty camp!
"The thief escaped?"
The captain of Wei County observed the camp and said: "The campfire is still hot, and the yellow turban thieves left not long ago."
Then he looked at the mountains in embarrassment and said: "It's just that it's not easy to find this group of Yellow Turban thieves in such mountains, and we don't have much food and grass!"
The prefect said solemnly: "If we separate the encirclement and suppression, the Yellow Turban thieves will always reveal their clues!"
But they searched deep in the mountains for a day, but found no trace of Xu Wei and the others. However, it was not without gain. They captured thousands of refugees.
The captain led the prefect of Wei County to a group of people and said: "Sir, we have captured thousands of yellow turban bandits! We have found out the leader of this group. He is a yellow turban bandit leader named Lei Gong. He passed by our Wei County and
Master Zhao Yi started a conflict, and then gathered tens of thousands of refugees in Hukou Mountain in the name of giving porridge, and broke into Master Zhao Zhong's manor. His subordinates seized hundreds of stones of grain, as well as a large amount of money and items from them.
This is the evidence! And Lei Gong himself is just a bandit of several hundred people!"
After speaking, he pointed to the confiscated items aside.
The prefect looked at the confiscated items and found that they were all gold, silver and other decorations. It was impossible for these refugees to own them. They had secretly collected them at first, but he didn't expect that they would lead to death!
The prefect asked coldly: "Where is your leader of thieves, Thunder Lord?"
The arrested refugees said in a panic: "We don't know!"
The prefect waved his hand!
The soldiers around him killed the refugee directly. Then he walked to the second refugee and said, "I don't want to say it a second time!"
The second refugee said in panic: "We saw Thunder Lord fleeing into the mountains, but we really don't know where he is. We are not familiar with him!"
Then the prefect asked a few more refugees, but the answers they all got were the same, which made the prefect a little disappointed. Hukou Mountain is connected to the Taihang Mountains, and the Taihang Mountains span thousands of miles. It is easy to hide millions of people.
Not to mention that there are hundreds of people hiding now, so now the prefect is in a dilemma. If he can't catch this Lei Gong, he doesn't know how to explain it to Zhao Zhong. The death of a cousin is not a big deal to Zhao Zhong, but the loss of tens of thousands of grains.
and tens of millions of money are a big deal. If these properties cannot be recovered, his career may end here.
So he looked at the deep mountain and said: "The yellow turban thieves have been running away soon. Let's work harder to catch this group of yellow turban thieves. As long as we catch this group of thieves, I will give you a heavy reward!"
The captain and the others looked sad. They were going deep into the mountains in such freezing weather. This was not killing people!
He whispered to the prefect: "The bandits are hiding in the mountains at the right time and in the right place. I'm afraid they won't be caught. Why don't we kill all these ant thieves and say that we have caught the bandits. We can also avenge Master Zhao Yi! This
Except for us, Zhao Zhong can’t know about it!”
The prefect was also puzzled: "You don't know Zhao Zhong's character. The death of Zhao Yi is nothing. What's important is his property. If we can't catch this Thunder Lord and take back Zhao Zhong's grain and money, how can he let him go?"
My officer, you have to know how great Huangfu Song’s achievements have been. It’s easy to kill a Thunder Lord, it’s also easy to kill some refugees, but you ask me to find tens of millions of money to compensate Zhao Zhong!”
The captain thought for a while and said: "Sir, there is a way. When General Huangfu was the shepherd of Jizhou, he not only reduced the tax of the entire Jizhou, but our Wei County's annual tax revenue alone is 200 million yuan. We can use some of this to pay
Tell Zhao Zhong that we recovered it, so that Zhao Zhong won't be suspicious."
The prefect thought for a while and then agreed after a long time. Originally, he and the officials in the prefecture had divided the money. Don't even think about the tax exemption. He spent tens of millions to become the prefect, so he couldn't tax them.
How can they get their money back? They are planning to take advantage of Mo's money. Now it seems they can only go back and discuss with everyone and give some to the eunuch Zhao Zhong.
Then he looked at the refugees kneeling on the ground and said with disgust: "Kill them all and make them a Jingguan. Let these ant thieves see the consequences of rebellion!"
The captain said: "No!"
"Sir, it's none of our business!"
"Sir, we are innocent!"
"You corrupt official, I will fight with you!"
When the refugees around heard this, some begged for mercy and some resisted, but it was of no use. The Han army beheaded us all one by one, and made their heads into temples and placed them outside Hukou Mountain!